Table of Contents
Evening service 1
Look at the material 3
I'm the note held toward the end 6
Company is coming over 8
Solace by earl 10
If I'm not my mother 13
The invention of the Super Sadness! was an accident 14
I hate when niggas die 15
Our Father's house (i) 16
#FreeMyNiggas but free my niggas 17
A trilogy everyone watches 19
My sex wet 21
I come to you as humbly as I know how 22
The many times I failed to defend my mother to Our Father 24
We had died real quick 26
Learning to tread water 27
Collection plates 30
Our Father's house (ii) 32
All the things that stretch out my lower back 33
Naked & afraid 36
Afraid & naked 38
The water cycle 40
Practical life skills 41
Melatonin 42
Our Fathers house (iii) 43
Been back before 44
The Super Sadness! feels like anger which feels like 45
Let's leave 47
I ain't never baked a thing from scratch a day in my life 48
Our Father's house (iv) 49
Chihuahuas 50
I'm tired of yo ass always crying 52
If you throw me in this water what you're telling me is you want me dead 54
Most calvaries have dead people 56
The maybe memory 58
Happy 100th birthday 59
Who say good folk ain't supposed to die 64
When I eulogize Our Father 66
"No one had told her about the end of love" 68
Leave me alone 69
If I am the Father 70
Birth of black bishop 71
Our Father's house (v) 73
Sermon notes 74
Gifting back bread & barren land 75
Acknowledgments 76